My Strange Addiction

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'My Strange Addiction': Carrie drinks her own urine (EWWW)
According to TLC, "Carrie brushes her teeth with her urine, uses it as lotion and even adds it to her bath water. She's so obsessed with it, Carrie even believes her urine treats her cancer despite no medical proof that it works."...
'My Strange Addiction': Shannon drinks gasoline
"It tastes like sweet and sour, like a tangy sauce. It tingles first, and then it burns the back of my throat. Even though it hurts me, it makes me feel good," Shannon says of the gasoline she drinks every day....

Show Summary

``Strange'' doesn't seem to adequately describe some of the addictive behaviors profiled on this series. ``Dangerous,'' even ``life-threatening,'' come much closer. Each half-hour episode features two adults who resort to extreme compulsions in an effort to soothe their emotional demons. Some of the addictions explored include sleeping with a turned-on blow dryer, eating bathroom cleanser, eating half a roll of toilet paper a day, extreme bodybuilding and thumb sucking.